Synthetic peptides incorporating protective B- and T-cell epitopes are candidates for new safer foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines. We have reported that dendrimeric peptides including four copies of a B-cell epitope ...

Bacterial infections have been on the rise world-wide in recent years and have a considerable impact on human well-being in terms of attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life years. Yet many mechanisms underlying ...

This article proposes that at least two agent-backgrounding operations with different syntactic and semantic properties have to be distinguished in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): the high-locus construction and the nonagreeing ...

The complementarity of gene expression and protein-DNA interaction data led to several successful models of biological systems. However, recent studies in multiple species raise doubts about the relationship between these ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the possible involvement of GABAB receptors in nicotine-induced hypolocomotion and antinociceptive effects in mice. Animals were exposed to nicotine only once. Acute nicotine ...

cis-Encoded antisense RNAs (asRNAs) are widespread along bacterial transcriptomes. However, the role of most of these RNAs remains unknown, and there is an ongoing discussion as to what extent these transcripts are the ...

Bacterial symbionts are known to facilitate a wide range of physiological processes and ecological interactions for their hosts. In spite of this, caterpillars with highly diverse life histories appear to lack resident ...

Recent neurophysiological experiments have demonstrated a remarkable effect of attention on the underlying neural/nactivity that suggests for the first time that information encoding is indeed actively influenced by ...

Background: Primary ventral hernia (PVH) and incisional hernia (IH) repair using a mesh appears to reduce hernia recurrence. However, are the benefits of mesh offset in part by mesh-related complications? The aim of this ...

Bidirectional barbed sutures (BBSs) have recently been investigated in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The contrasting results from the scarce literature suggest that BBSs are safe, save time and money, and give results ...